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About
The AmeriGEOSS initiative (https://www.amerigeoss.org/about/overview) is a framework that seeks to promote collaboration and coordination among the GEO (http://earthobservations.org) members in the American continent, “to realize a future wherein decisions and actions, for the benefit of the region, are informed by coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information”.
The AmeriGEOSS Week 2018
The event took place from 6 to 10 August, 2018, at the National Institute for Space Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais – INPE) in São José dos Campos, São Paulo State, Brazil.
The main objectives of AmeriGEOSS Week 2018 were to share of good practices and knowledge within the priority areas established for the Americas region and develop new ways of strengthening relations. You will find next some of the presentations provided during the five days of the event. (https://www.amerigeoss.org/amerigeoss-events/amerigeoss-week-2018/)
AmeriGEOSS Week 2018 Final Agenda
Day 1
- GEO Overview and Future Plans (Gilberto Camara, GEO Secretariat)
- AmeriGEOSS Initiative Overview (Angelica Gutierrez, NOAA)
- EuroGEOSS Initiative Overview (Karine Siegwart, Swiss Federal Office for the Environment)
- MBON Initiative Goals and Outcomes (Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida)
Day 2
- AmeriGEOSS Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture GEOGLAM-Latinoamerica AMA-WG/GT (Alyssa Whitcraft, GEOGLAM Secretariat, USA)
- The CBERS Satellites (Joao Vianei Soares, INPE)
- Red Colombia de Agricultura (Cesar Valbuena Calderon)
- Estimating the impact of climate change on Brazil's agricultural sector (Marcia Zilli, INPE)
- Information for support systems for decision making in agricultural production: an Uruguayan example (Guadalup Tiscornia, Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria)
- The Global Agricultural Monitoring (GLAM (Michael Humber, University of Maryland )
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- GeoNetCast Americas (Luiz Augusto Machado, INPE)
- CEOS Working Group on Capacity Building and Data Democracy (Nancy Searby, NASA)
- Mapping Precipitation and Solar Potential in the Guiana Shield with Satellite Data (Tommy Albarelo, University of French Guiana)
Day 3
- Revealing the fate of tropical forests through Earth observation data (Luiz de Aragão, INPE)
- INPE´s role in the Brazilian Ecosystems Environmental Monitoring Program (Dalton Valeriano, INPE)
- SilvaCarbon Initiative (Africa Flores, NASA)
- The use of Sentinel-2 images to identify Eragrostis plana invasion in Pampa biome rangelands (Eliana Lima da Fonseca, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
- Use of public Earth Observation data for tracking progress in sustainable management of coastal forest ecosystems in Belize, Central America (Betzy Hernandez, NASA and University of Alabama in Huntsville)
- GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGLOWS) (Angelica Gutierrez, NOAA)
- CEMADEN Activities and their contribution to GEOGLOWS (Osvaldo Moraes, CEMADEN)
- Brazilian Flood Awareness System (Marcio A. E. de Moraes, CEMADEN)
- The Common Swiss Information Platform for Natural Hazards (GIN) (Karine Siegwart, Federal Office for the Environment, FOEN)
- Hydrological Monitoring – CPRM´s Experience (Andrea de Oliveira Germano, Geological Service, CPRM)
- The National Hydro-meteorological network - monitoring critical events (Geraldo Lucatelli Junior, National Water Agency, ANA)
- LabISA ongoing studies supporting the monitoring of Brazilian Inland Waters (Claudio Barbosa, INPE)
Day 4
- AmeriGEOSS Disasters Working Group (Rodrigo Suarez, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
- Disasters Charter in the Americas and Examples of usage (Laercio Namikawa, INPE)
- Risk mapping for landslides and floods associated with the movement of urban trains: a case study around Caieiras station of Line 7 Rubi of CPTM, São Paulo, Brazil (Thaís Passos Correia, Universidade de São Paulo)
- Geoinformation for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction; The Role of Geospatial Standards (Trevor Taylor, Open Geospatial Consortium)
- The GEO Blue Planet Initiative: Ocean and Coastal Observations for Societal Benefit (Milton kampel, INPE, on behalf of Samuel Djavidnia, GEO Blue Planet)
- Harnessing Earth Observations to Support Indigenous-led Land Management (Karyn Tabor, Conservation International)
- SiB Colombia: Compartir y acceder a datos sobre biodiversidad (Leonardo Buitrago, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt)
- The connection between end users and regional climate information for the effective decision making (Alejandro Solis, Center for Digital Acceleration - DAI)